ARPost

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Action games are, of course, among the most expected VR games in 2021. Platforms: Steam, Oculus, Playstation VR. Platforms: Steam, Oculus, GOG. Platform: Steam, Oculus. Platforms: Steam, PSVR, Oculus. The setting is Italy, more precisely, the beaches of Sicily. After the Fall. Developer : Vertigo Games.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. More info (Lynx R2 on Road To VR) More info (Lynx R2 on Upload VR).

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2019

Created in partnership with UK-based studio Just Add Water , Sniper Elite VR takes place in World War II Italy, set prior to the events of Rebellion’s latest entry in the series, Sniper Elite 4 (2017). Sniper Elite VR is set to arrive on the PlayStation Store for PSVR, and for PC VR headsets via the Oculus Store, Steam, and Viveport.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If you were wondering, we in Italy do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I would love one year to participate in its celebration hosted by an American family. You can buy headsets at a discounted price, or accessories, or even lots of games on Steam, Viveport, and Oculus Store! Other relevant news. Image by Niantic). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

I see the value for cross-platform apps to have also a version for the Vision Pro , which helps with brand value, too, but I don’t see how a Vision Pro exclusive content can survive, unless it is funded by Apple, of course. If you want to buy some PCVR games, I suggest you give it a read! appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Anyway, in these two weeks, even with some difficulties, I’ve managed to work quite at the same pace that I had in Italy , and we are going full speed ahead in improving the platform (some news about it is coming very soon…). While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

At the moment, XR Now is compatible with HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest 2, and Android 10 tablets. A test on Oculus Quest 2, where most commercial applications run well at 90Hz would have been more significant; We were in the Bay Area, one of the most advanced technological regions of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. I’m a man, so of course, I don’t cry, but “a friend of mine” had his eyes become very wet while watching it. Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse. No availability.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

On Thursday, April 21st, in Italy there has been the first edition of the On|Metaverse Summit , an amazing hybrid event of which I have been a co-organizer. On|Metaverse Summit has been the first international event on the “metaverse” organized in Italy. I think we all worked very well together as a team.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

There was (and still is) quite a good hype for these headsets, exactly as there was hype for what was Oculus Santa Cruz, the codename of the Oculus Quest. If you add VAT, in Italy it will cost €600. I hope to be wrong, of course and see Quest 3 selling 50 million units, but I highly doubt it. Let me tell you why.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. My favorite from this week?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Inflation here in Italy is ramping up, and the impression I have is that we are entering into a recession phase. Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2018

Of course, these are US prices : here in Italy, the headset only costs €879 and all other bundles are more expensive because of taxes (damn taxes). Of course, I’m not happy with that, because this means that I myself can’t afford it, but I can understand the choice. Oculus for business costs $900.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

I hope they are going to come later… And then of course there is the last horrible thing which is the cable that connects the headset to the external battery. And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. What year is it? 2016 or 2023?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. Of course, since we all are addicted to VR, the first thing that came to our mind is: does it support VR? Top news of the week. Well, yes and no.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

I’m in Italy again and here in these days, it is damn hot and wet. If you have a recent phone, you can select the lipstick that you wish and see the image from your front camera updated automatically so that to let you preview how you look with that lipstick on (of course, I looked fantabulous!). Oculus Summer Sale has arrived!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn coronavirus has arrived in my city in northern Italy, but I’m still alive and kicking, reporting you the most interesting XR news of the week! Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. I’ve already applied, of course.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To perform this experiment, they supplied HTC Vive headsets (of course Vive Immersive Labs doesn’t work with Oculus Go :D) to 207 office workers in three Chinese cities: Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai (three Chinese cities that are very distant the one from the others). This means sparing money, time and also stress.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 29, 2019

the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, together with the University of Bologna, Italy, announces the world’s first fully-accredited Master’s degree in both Innovation studies and Extended Realities (XR). IRVINE, CA, August 27, 2019 – EON Reality Inc.,

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Image by Microsoft). Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2018

Today I’ve had the occasion to meet HTC China president Alvin Wang Graylin in my city, Turin (Italy). P.S. To compensate the too much love for HTC in this article, I will close with: “I love my Oculus Rift. So, VR community, just relax, we will know the price of the Vive Pro at the right time.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Of course, he said that after having tried Google products, they also took inspiration to improve their ones to try to keep pace, but this was surely a bad news for them. There were lots of similarities of course, but I think that for the purpose it has been designed for, Space Draw is surely better. I asked him about the competition.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Bytedance acquired Pico one year ago, and of course, the owner of TikTok doesn’t want to just stay in the enterprise niche, but it wants to expand to the consumer sector and directly compete with Meta and Quest 2. I found tracking to be good, but it is not as amazing as Oculus Insight, though. Right View.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2019

I’ve returned to Italy, but there is still so much I have to tell you about the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao! Of course, it won’t be easy and especially, it will be quite creepy : I started the experience into a house that looked abandoned, in the middle of nowhere. Are you ready for some new reviews?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2019

” The View Conference is a prestigious event in my city of Turin, Italy. Me trying the Oculus Rift S. I felt it also better than the Oculus Quest : it is much more balanced. Oculus Rift S and its Touch controllers (Image by Road To VR). Biidaaban: First Light is the experience that let me try the Oculus Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This year, the Venice VR event, called Venice VR Expanded, is going to be held mostly in VR , with the participating movies and artworks that are being distributed through Viveport and Oculus TV and the event being hold in VRChat with a world built by VRrOOm. Of course everything for $1000. Why VRChat?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Regarding the cost, for instance, Oculus can afford to sell its devices under cost, because it has Facebook’s deep pockets covering the losses. You feel the difference when you return to wear a standard-FOV headset : at that time, going back from Pimax to Oculus, for instance, it looks like you are using binoculars. with Amazon Prime.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference. We really are at the early stages of game engine technology for VR, and there are a whole bunch of challenges that come along with 90 frames per second and these very high frame rates, and of course everything being in stereo,” Bredow said.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I am back in Italy! Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. During my trip to San Francisco, I was surprised to see in every corner of the city ads about the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Johnson also claims that ML2 will have the biggest FOV in the AR market (with the exception of RealMax, of course), with double of the field of view area of Magic Leap 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

We VR enthusiast know about virtual tours a lot, so we may think that it is already a saturated market, but actually it is not (and by some tests that we did in Italy, I can confirm that). If the name OSVR is new to you… well, it was a project with a lot of potential that came out in the period of the Oculus DK2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Italy, Canada, and China together to create an amazing video about these VR glasses! Notice that while reading this review you must remind that this is just a devkit: its performances are of course not perfect, and its design and features may change before the final release. I strongly advise you to watch it here below.

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